Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin. He is an award-winning author, co-author and editor of over 50 books, including the Eisner Award winning, Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (2017), Comics Studies Here and Now (2018), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comics Studies (2020), and Comics Studies: The Key Concepts (2026). He is editor and co-editor of 10 book series, including Latinographix and Brown Ink that publish graphic fiction and nonfiction. His contributions to literature, art, and education have earned him Obama White House honors as well as induction into both the Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University's Hall of Fame.
